Who wrote the Beth v Dilly story? Original and horrendously hot.
That was me! Thanks!
I broke up a fight once (it was no great act of heroism) between two young men at a bus stop on a busy street in Greenwich. And I thought I'd done my good deed for the day, because it was an extremely dangerous place to be fighting, firstly because if either of them had fallen, they'd have hit their head on hard concrete, but secondly because with cars and heavy lorries passing within yards of where they were fighting, if either of them had been pushed into the road they might well have been killed. If this had been the park, I'd have just walked by.
Yet as soon as I broke up the fight, a middle-aged woman standing nearby began shouting at me to mind my own business (apparently she was the mother of one of the fighters) and told him to hit the other boy again. I thought of her when I read your story. I'd have loved it if the other boy's mother had appeared from nowhere and she'd suffered the same fate as Beth in your story. In the event, the police showed up (someone must have called 999) and I left the whole problem to them.
But, for me, there's more to the appeal of your story than that. For me, the real appeal lies in the character of Dilly. You don't describe her appearance but she's a dream mum in many ways: as well as being proud and supportive of her son, she plays fair (even when she's losing, she'd rather lose than accept help); she's brave (she fights back from a very difficult situation to win); she's liberated (when she wins, she exults in her victory, as she has every right to do); she's perceptive (she understands exactly what's going on in the mind of her son); she's honest (she admits that she felt the same emotions when she watched him fighting); she's unshockable (when her son owns up to his desire to jack-off in the face of her defeated rival, she says 'why not? [and why not?
]); she has a sense of humour (because as well as its powerful eroticism, the whole situation does have its funny side); and then there's that bit at the end that's teetering on the edge of incest and yet somehow more about intimacy than lust.
Seriously. I love this story. I wish I'd written it. It's succinct, incredibly sexy, and somehow heart-warming at the same time.